Dr Kevin Burden

National Teaching Fellow 2015 Dr Kevin Burden is an infectious champion for technology-enhanced learning (TEL) and his teaching awards and international recognition are testament to the outstanding work he has undertaken with students and colleagues to transform their learning experiences and practices with the use of technology. Throughout his career Kevin has been passionate in encouraging his students, mostly pre-service and in-service teachers, to overcome their natural trepidation towards technology in teaching. He models the use of technology in all of his own teaching (eg using voting devices to gather student feedback) and has discovered how to engage reluctant users through a combination of one to one mentoring, role-modelling and hands-on practical activities. In these ways Kevin has demonstrated how to use technology to transform the perspectives of many educators, enabling them to learn more effectively. His research is closely aligned with his passion for teaching and his teaching excellence in TEL has led to the award of significant funding (in excess of £1.4m) to investigate the effective pedagogical application of TEL. This has had an immediate impact on his own teaching practices and students, such as the recent research he undertook into the use of iPads in Scottish schools. This has now resulted in a large-scale learning and teaching project with PGCE students in the Faculty of Education and a recent Erasmus+ grant to develop a European mobile learning network for teacher educators. The publications and outputs from his research have impacted at both a national and international level and Kevin is able to demonstrate how his research in educational technology has impacted on educators use of technology around the world. Kevin enjoys sharing his expertise with other colleagues and students and gets great pleasure when his ideas are applied in different disciplines, such as the work he undertook with JISC and the HEA to embed the use of video in learning and teaching across the UK. The DiAL-e framework, which he developed from his own teaching, is now used in the UK and beyond and it is clear students are benefitting directly from using this.